Information Systems and the Open World Challenges

Abstract

Over the last decade, the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) has been concerned with prospecting the main research challenges in the area of Computer Science in Brazil, through the seminar "Grand Challenges in Computer Research in Brazil" (2006, 2009 and 2014). The positive impact of this initiative has opened new paths for research and organization of events around these themes, as well as concrete development of actions by the scientific community on the topics covered in the seminar. Inspired by this, scientific communities from different computer science domains within SBC have worked to identify their major research challenges too. Considering the growing maturity of the Information Systems scientific community within SBC, the Information Systems Special Commission (CE-SI) launched the Seminar on Research Challenges in Information Systems in Brazil - GranDSI-BR in 2016. The aim of this seminar was to prospect the Information Systems research issues that would be relevant for Brazilian science and society in the next 10 years (2016-2026). This ebook contains the results of this seminar; chapters written by researchers of the Brazilian Information Systems scientific community. The challenges described in this ebook are a reflection of the prevailing ideas of the Information Systems community on the area. It is hope that they will inspire and guide the direction of Information Systems research in Brazil in the coming years. We would like that these challenges serve as guiding principles for the development of projects which will produce significant scientific advances with both technological and social impact in Brazil. Clodis